This exercise will help you to put what you are learning this week to work for you as you start thinking about your Search Strategy assignment. Choose one of the suggested topics, then pose a question that you want to answer about that topic. This will be your preliminary research question. The Week 1 resources will help you to get acquainted with the UMGC library and other online resources and scope out information that is available and relevant to your question. Then, plan a preliminary research strategy, which should include some search phrases that include Boolean logic. Please answer the following questions in your discussion post:

What is your topic of interest and your research question? Please share how you created your research question.

Where will you begin your search and why?

What search terms will you use? Please demonstrate them in a search statement using simple Boolean logic. If you really want to impress me and your classmates, try an advanced searching technique!!

What was the easiest part of this activity? Did you get stuck trying to come up with a search strategy? What was the hardest part of the activity?

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